With your daily goal, you can easily see how you are tracking against that one target.

Look at that every day and make sure EVERYONE in the company knows it.

For 2014, I applied this principle to my marketing blog OkDork.com. I decided that the only thing that mattered was getting new email subscribers and reaching 50,000 email subscribers by the end of 2014 having started the year at 12,000 subscribers.

Instead of trying to increase on-page time, improve SEO, get guest bloggers, grow social media followers, and get more YouTube followers, I focused solely on email subscribers.

For most of us, it’s too easy to set five or six goals and then when we don’t reach them, we have an excuse: "Well, we were trying to reach all of these other goals and we got distracted."

Now that I’m in July I’m at more than 45,000 subscribers.

Nearly there.

Make life easier for yourself and commit to one goal, measure yourself daily, and adjust accordingly.

—Noah Kagan is the Chief Sumo of AppSumo.com, the free newsletter to help entrepreneurs win. Grab his free marketing newsletter on how he grew AppSumo to 700,000+ subscribers.

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